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In this December 14, 1976, photo, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani listens to newsmen s questions during a news conference at Doha, Qatar, after he arrived to attend OPEC meeting. (AP Photo, File)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis, the nationalization of its state energy company and once found himself held hostage by the assassin Carlos the Jackal, died Tuesday in London. He was 90.
Saudi state television reported his death, without offering a cause. It said he would be buried in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
Authorities will repatriate his remains for burial in Lebanon, said the pro-Damascus Al-Mayadeen television channel.
Screen capture from video of Anis Naccache, a Lebanese pro-Palestinian former terrorist (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
Born in June 1951, Naccache joined late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah group in the early 1970s and also worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Among those Naccache recruited while with Fatah was arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, who later rose to become Hezbollah’s top operative.
Mughniyeh was implicated in some of the terror group’s major attacks, including the 1992 bombing at the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA building in the Argentinian capital, in which 85 people were killed.